4-year-old boy with loose teeth, swollen face said 'daddy' got mad at him for not going to sleep: Police

Inset: Joshua George (West Virginia Department of Corrections). Background: J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital successful Morgantown, W.Va. (Google Maps).

A West Virginia antheral is down bars aft constabulary said helium deed his young son successful the face, astir knocking retired the boy's beforehand teeth.

Joshua George, 39, is being held astatine the North Central Regional Jail aft being charged with child abuse. According to reporting by section CBS affiliate WDTV, George's 4-year-old lad was brought to J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital successful Morgantown, West Virginia, connected July 26 with a swollen face and escaped teeth. Medical unit suspected kid maltreatment and called the Marion County Sheriff's Office.

When deputies spoke with a forensic caregiver astatine the hospital, she said the lad told her that his begetter got huffy astatine him due to the fact that helium "would not spell to sleep" aft his parent work him a bedtime story.

Local NBC affiliate WBOY reported that the boy's look was swollen connected the near broadside and his beforehand teeth were loose, successful summation to different disposable injuries. Medical unit notified kid protective services, and an probe into the boy's injuries took spot implicit the adjacent mates of months.

During an interrogation astatine the Marion County Child Advocacy Center that took spot successful September, the lad told authorities that an wounded to his receptor was "from his daddy." Deputies reportedly obtained a warrant to presumption the boy's aesculapian records connected Oct. 1, which allegedly stated that "the juvenile disclosed that [George] got mad" and "hit" him.

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George was arrested connected Sunday and is being held connected $100,000 currency oregon surety bond. His adjacent tribunal day was not instantly publically available.

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